Health Fight Mosquito-borne Diseases: Weather Factors can Help Predict Dengue Outbreaks James Pereira Jul 26, 2022 Dengue is widespread throughout the tropics, with local variations in risk, influenced by climate parameters as well… Read More...
Health Vaccine for rare but deadly mosquito-borne viruses shows promise in clinical trial James Pereira May 13, 2022 A vaccine for eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), western equine encephalitis virus (WEEV), and Venezuelan equine… Read More...
Health Arthritis Linked to Mosquito-borne Viruses James Pereira Mar 13, 2022 "In severe RA, patients express high levels of an immune molecule called Interleukin-17 (IL-17), which is a target of… Read More...
Health Mosquito-borne Virus Warning in Australia James Pereira Feb 28, 2022 Acute encephalitis is inflammation of the brain that is most commonly caused by viral or bacterial infection. … Read More...
Health Deadly virus’s pathway to infect cells identified: Mosquito-borne Rift Valley fever virus slips into… James Pereira Sep 24, 2021 Rift Valley fever virus causes economically devastating outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in livestock such as sheep, goats… Read More...
Health Sugar Stops the Spread of Mosquito-Borne Arboviral Diseases James Pereira Sep 8, 2021 The research -- led by the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research -- showed that the Aedes aegypti… Read More...
Health Mapping dengue hot spots pinpoints risk for Zika and chikungunya: A risk-stratification method to… James Pereira Jul 12, 2021 Data from nine cities in Mexico confirms that identifying dengue fever "hot spots" can provide a predictive map for… Read More...
Health Climate change makes West Nile virus outbreaks ‘plausible’ in UK: Risk of mosquito-borne… James Pereira May 29, 2021 Climate change will make outbreaks of West Nile virus more likely in the UK within the next 20-30 years, scientists say.… Read More...